Highways Agency

Susan Kramer: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what cost changes have been approved for schemes in the Highways Agency's major roads programme since the publication of the Nichols report in March 2007.

Tom Harris: Following the Nichols report the arrangements for estimating and approving the cost of schemes within the roads programme are being improved. Schemes are not finally approved for construction until we have a price agreed with the contractor. Since publication of the Nichols report we have approved start of works for five schemes, at the expected costs shown in the following table.
	
		
			   Expected cost (£ million) 
			 M27 Junction 3-4 17.4 
			 M27 Junction 11-12 36 
			 M1 Junction 25-28 345 
			 A1 Bramham to Wetherby 65 
			 M25 Junction 1b-3 (1)62 
			 (1 )In addition, £12 million of work has been transferred to the A2/A282 scheme. 
		
	
	The Highways Agency is currently undertaking an exercise to re-estimate the costs for schemes not yet in construction, following the recommendations on cost estimating in the Nichols report. Where appropriate they are examining the scope for using Active Traffic Management (ATM), in line with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State's announcement on 25 October of a feasibility study into the scope for advanced traffic management. The results of the re-estimation process and the ATM feasibility work will be published in the spring.
	In the meantime, where schemes need to progress through stages of development, the best information available at the time has been used. Since publication of the Nichols report, Ministers have agreed cost estimates for the purpose of publishing Environmental Statements or draft orders for the following schemes:
	
		
			   Cost estimate agreed (£ million) 
			 M25 DBFO — 
			 Section 1 696 
			 Section 4 583 
			 M1 J10-13 601 
			 A421 Bedford to M1 J13 188 
		
	
	In addition we have approved the preferred route for the A14 Ellington to Fen Ditton improvement. The estimate for this scheme is being reviewed, as noted above, and more robust estimates will be published in spring 2008.

Illegal Immigrants

Stewart Hosie: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many illegal immigrants were found at each of the main ports of entry to the United Kingdom in 2007.

Liam Byrne: Illegal entry action is initiated against those people who are detected having entered or attempted to enter the country clandestinely or by means of deception, either verbal or documentary. The following table represent those illegal entrants detected at ports of entry from 1 January 2007 to 30 November 2007.
	
		
			  Initiating port  Total 
			 Ashford 9 
			 Birmingham International Airport 2 
			 Brussels Control 2 
			 Calais Ferryport 3,199 
			 Calais Hoverport 1 
			 Cheriton 10 
			 Coquelles 721 
			 Dorset Ports Office 219 
			 Dover East Ports Office 4 
			 Dunkerque Ports Office 700 
			 Felixstowe 86 
			 Heathrow TN3 5 
			 Holyhead 1 
			 Number Ports 47 
			 Newcastle 1 
			 Newhaven 25 
			 North Shields 2 
			 Plymouth Ports Office 91 
			 Portsmouth Ports Office 21 
			 Ramsgate 2 
			 Tees Ports Office 5 
			 Tilbury Ports Office 14 
			 Grand total 5,167 
			  Note: The data provided is based on locally collated management information, which may be subject to change and does not represent published national statistics.

Metropolitan Police: Complaints

Harry Cohen: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what criteria are used in directing complaints relating to the handling of cases by the Metropolitan police to  (a) the Metropolitan Police Directorate of Professional Standards and  (b) the Independent Police Complaints Commission; what the outcome has been of the handling of the complaint of Bilan and Hussein Mohamud in relation to the conduct of Kentish Town police station officers; and if she will make a statement.

Tony McNulty: The Metropolitan police direct all public complaints to their Directorate of Professional Standards (DPS). Under Schedule 3 of the Police Reform Act 2002, the Metropolitan police—and all other police forces in England and Wales—must refer to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) specific complaints or incidents that could damage public confidence in the police. The police and the IPCC have a set of criteria for this process, and those criteria identify the following matters as Mandatory Referrals:
	Where direct or indirect contact with the police may have caused or contributed to a person's death or serious injury;
	Where a member of the police service is alleged to have committed a serious assault or serious sexual assault;
	Where a member of the police service is alleged to have committed an offence that could attract a prison sentence of seven years or more;
	Where a member of the police service is alleged to have committed a criminal offence / behaviour aggravated by discrimination;
	Serious corruption.
	Discretionary referrals, outside of the categories above, can also be made to the IPCC if it is desirable to do so in the public interest. Discretionary referral of conduct matters to the IPCC may be done only with the authority of a DPS officer of the rank of Detective Superintendent or above. The IPCC, which has guardianship of the police complaints system, also has the power to call in an investigation where circumstances justify their involvement.
	Bilan and Hussein Mohamud made a number of complaints to the Metropolitan police in December 2005, which were investigated by the Directorate of Professional Standards; the outcome of that investigation was that all matters were found to be un-substantiated. This was conveyed to the solicitors for Mr. and Mrs. Mohamud in January 2007.